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This notice is being sent to all Rule 31 Mediators which includes TAPM Members and non TAPM Members. If you are a member of TAPM, you will notice that this exciting and practical seminar is available to TAPM Members at a cost of $100.00 for the entire day, including lunch. If you are not a member of TAPM yet, the seminar and membership in TAPM will be $200.00, $25.00 more than a Non Member Attendance. Benefits of membership include an Annual Meeting, Quarterly Meetings, a local and national newsletter, civil and family peer groups and a member web page.
You are invited to TAPM’s Annual Meeting, Luncheon and three or six hours CLE/CME on March 28, 2008. PLEASE RSVP by email by March 20, 2008 so we can order lunch for you. Space is limited. Send your check with the registration form below the program notes.
APPROVED FOR CME CREDIT:
General Civil Mediators
If General Civil Mediators attend the morning session (8:30 - 11:45) they can obtain 3 hours of general mediation issues. If they attend the afternoon civil session (1:00 - 4:15) they can obtain 3 hours of general mediation issues. If a general civil mediator attended the entire 6 hours ,they would satisfy 5 of 6 CME required hours. They would still lack the 1 hour of mediation ethics that is needed.
Family Mediators
If Family Mediators attend the morning session (8:30 - 11:45) they can obtain 3 hours of family law issues. If they attend the afternoon family session (1:00 - 4:15) they can obtain 1.5 hours of mediation issues and 1.5 hours of mediation ethics. If a family mediator attended the entire 6 hours, they would satisfy all 6 hours required for their family listing.
APPROVED FOR CLE CREDIT:
6 GENERAL CREDIT HOURS AND & 1.5 DUAL CREDIT HOURS
8:00 – 8:30 Registration - Ezell Center – Institute for Conflict Management, Lipscomb University, 3901 Granny White Pike, Nashville, TN .
Directions to Ezell Center are below or you can find them on our website at www.tennmediators.org
8:30 to 11:45 CLE/CME with J. Anderson Little from Chapel Hill North Carolina speaking on MAKING MONEY TALK
ANDY LITTLE has recently published a book through the American the Bar Association, entitled MAKING MONEY TALK. The book represents experience gained from thousands of personal injury mediations. He poses the question as to what role mediators play when parties have moved beyond analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of their case, when the proposed settlement only involves amounts of money. This advanced mediation seminar is designed to fill a gap in the theory of the mediation process and to provide a set of tools to assist negotiators and mediators in any negotiation involving money claims. Andy Little has identified numerous, and often predictable, stumbling blocks to successful money negotiations --- and has developed ways of understanding and dealing with them which will expand a mediator’s repertoire of mediation techniques. He has given numerous presentations on these principles before he gathered them together in his book.
The first three hours in the morning will address the principles a mediator can use in employing the "control theory" in order to deal with the many recurring problems that mediators find in the mediation of insured claims, including:
The problem of "who goes first?”; "I'm not going to bid against myself!"
"Go tell them to give me a realistic number.”; "I'm out of here."
"That offer's insulting." ; "Is that his best number?"
"I'm not going to dignify that offer with a response." And many more. . . [See Reviews of book below.]
11:45 – 1:00 Box Lunch and Business Meeting and Election of officers
(This includes a vote on a by-law change to enlarge the Board of Directors)
1:00 – 4:15 CIVIL TRACK - This track continues with Andy Little in an interactive session, breaking up into small groups, with hand’s on experience on the principles learned from the morning’s session as applied to civil cases. A selected panel, led by Andy Little will also take questions on problematic cases and how to deal with them.
1:00 – 2:30 FAMILY TRACK - This track will be led by our own Ann Barker!
Ann is currently a professor at University of Tennessee School of Law and runs the Mediation Clinic as well as being a private mediator with The Mediation Group of Tennessee. Previously she was the first ADR Director at the AOC.
Ann will summarize the principles from the morning seminar if seminar participants missed the morning session. Then there will be interactive sessions with small groups as to how those principles work in the family mediation area with division of property, alimony, retirement plans, evaluation of businesses and any other financial issues.
2:45 – 4:15 The Messy Business of Finalizing the Agreement - What documents do you prepare? How do you work with attorneys? What is the practice of law? And what is being a scribe? How do you avoid having the parties back away from the agreement, if there are no attorneys? What are the ethical considerations? Ann Barker and other experienced attorneys will discuss the joys and pitfalls of this final step as well as other family mediator ethical issues. (This earns 1.5 ethics credits.)
Reviews: Making Money Talk is a valuable contribution to the conflict field. Andy Little correctly identifies the weakness in traditional needs based mediation for quite a wide variety of cases, yet shows how the basic value of a facilitative, client centered, process oriented, communication focused approach is still essential to money cases. Plus Making Money Talk is very well written and presented -- it's a pleasure to read.
--- Bernie Mayer, Professor, Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, Creighton University, Omaha, NE
This book is a gift to both new and experienced mediators. It is profoundly practical in providing instruction on how to successfully mediate claims for money where the case is about numbers rather than relationships. This is not a book of theory, it is a guide of what to do and say as a mediator to move traditional law suit bargaining toward settlement. Andy Little has the mediation experience to discern patterns of movement that those who have not yet had thousands of cases would not know and he has the clarity of thought and writing to explain what the rest of us need to know.
--- Jay Folberg, Professor Emeritus, University of San Francisco School of Law.
Directions: Finding Lipscomb University Campus
FROM NORTH OF NASHVILLE ON I-65 OR I-24: Take I-65 to I-40 West to I-440 East.
FROM SOUTH OF NASHVILLE ON I-65: Take I-440 West
FROM EAST OF NASHVILLE ON I-40: Take I-24 East to I-440 West.
From WEST OF NASHVILLE ON I-40: Take I-440 East
Take Exit 3 (21st Ave. /Hillsboro Pike).
When the off-ramp splits, follow the signs to Hillsboro Pike.
Once you are on Hillsboro Pike, turn left at the third stop light. This is Woodmont Blvd.
At the first stoplight, turn right onto Belmont Blvd.
Go approximately two blocks and the campus will be on your left.
You will pass the main entrance to the University.
Ezell Center is the last building on campus before you get to the baseball field. Parking is behind the building.
TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL MEDIATORS
ANNUAL MEETING & CLE/CME
MARCH 28, 2008
REGISTRATION FORM
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NAME
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ADDRESS
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CITY, STATE ZIP
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PHONE
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EMAIL
_________ Enclosed $100.00 2008-09 TAPM DUES
$100.00 Registration for CLE/CME
$200.00 DUE ON OR BEFORE MARCH 20, 2008
Or
________ Enclosed $ 50.00 Associate Membership
$100.00 Registraiton for CLE/CME
$150.00
OR
__________ Enclosed $100.00 Registration Fee for TAPM Member
Who already renewed their TAPM 08-09 dues
on or before March 20 2008
OR
___________ Enclosed $175.00 Registration for Non TAPM member
for March 28 2008 CLE/CME
Please send your Registration and/or Dues payable to
TAPM
P. O. Box 150626
Nashville, TN 37215.
Questions: Email TAPM’s Executive Director Lisa Smith at tapm@tennmediators.org or Voice Mail: 615-383-TAPM!
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